Sony doesn’t quite have their back to the wall the way Microsoft and Nintendo do, but despite their leading position, their E3 2014 press conference was largely free of the ego and hubris the company has sometimes been guilty of.

Their message was simple — we’re have the best, most varied exclusives, and even non-exclusives will be best on our machine, and they mostly backed that up with an eclectic, impressive line-up of games.Hit the next pages for a recap of all the most important stuff that happened during Sony’s 2014 E3 Press Conference…

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The Last of Us Remastered

Sony gave fans a first real glimpse of The Last Of Us Remastered and it’s looking good. Basically the game now actually looks as good as early bullshots of the PS3 version. The game’s coming surprisingly soon too — July 29th.

The Order: 1886

We got a new “gameplay” trailer (a lot of it was obviously scripted) that gave us a taste of the survival-horror side The Order: 1886.

How this will mesh with the Assassin’s Creed-esque gameplay we’ve already seen I don’t know. I’m still not entirely sure what to think of this game, but that werewolf/zombie hybrid thing certainly was creepy.

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No Man’s Sky

Sony seems to be putting their full weight behind indie game No Man’s Sky, as they spent more time on it than pretty much any other game. Can’t blame them, as the game is certainly looking impressive. Basically, everyone starts on their own procedurally generated planet and you can eventually take to outer space and visit everybody else’s planets. Looks like pretty mind blowing stuff — hopefully it doesn’t end up as another Spore.

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Grand Theft Auto V for Next-Gen

Do I really need to say anything?

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Batman: Arkham Knight

Okay, I can’t stay silent on this one — holy crap. Holy crapping crappy sh-t. Batman:Arkham Knight is amazing. It looks like all of Batman: Akham City could fit into one block of this game. And then the Batmobile! And and, it turns into a tank! And Jesus, that’s one creepy version of the Scarecrow.

I…want…this…game…now.

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Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End

Ladies and gentlemen, our first glimpse of Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End. Okay, well, it’s still a teaser, but it’s a lot more substantial than the last teaser.

Wow, that’s one detailed Nathan Drake. Of course the final game probably won’t look quite that good, but if it does, well, I guess the era of legit photorealism is here.

Heads-up: the headline says City where it should say Knight. With GTA V AND Arkham City in there, that headline is mighty unimpressive at a glance.

Anyway, THIS is how you E3! I don’t know why EA even bothered to show up with as little as they had to show. But Sony really killed, from the looks of it. That MGSV trailer was the shit. No Man’s Sky still looks way too good to be true, but I don’t mind that some overselling for the time being. The Order has finally got me interested now, too. But I might be more excited about Grim Fandango than any of it. Just a few days ago I made a comment somewhere lamenting that I wish this game was buyable new somewhere. Good stuff.

Yeah, EA’s press conference was just…weird. I think they wanted to send the message that EA’s future is bright and full of exciting games, but the actual take away was EA isn’t really ready for this generation and anything other than somewhat better looking sports games is waaaay down the pipe.

Naughty Dog is saying that Uncharted trailer is in-engine and they are aiming for 60 FPS. Apparently Drake’s model there has over double the polygons as Joel did in The Last of Us. If anyone can get crazy power from a Sony machine it is Naughty Dog.

That’s probably true now given Ubi’s track record. Watch_Dogs still looks really good, but not what they showed. ACIV, same.

But Naughty Dog… well, The Last Of Us… that sequence that they showed in E3 didn’t play out exactly the same, but it did get close. And even though it wasn’t 100% the demo, it was still amazing and ended up being the best game of the year and possibly the best game on the PS3 console. So… yeah…

Are the going to have some sort of balance thing in No Man’s Sky that keeps advanced players from showing up to newer player’s home planets and just nuking them from orbit (it’s the only way to be sure)?

Also…so, Batman is also Iron Man? It sure looks that way based on how they’ve made the suit like in the Arkham Knight trailer. Why doesn’t Bruce just build a jet-pack into the Bat Suit and be done with the Batmobile? Tony Stark ain’t need to fancy wheeled tank.

Yeah, this line up has gotten me pretty excited. Haven’t gone next gen yet (was waiting on the Division and not being poor), but seeing Uncharted and a couple of these other ones has gotten me. Can’t wait.